Re-connecting with nature.

In an increasingly fragmented, polarised, digitised and automated world, re-connecting with nature, both wild and human, is becoming a more prominent feature in the lives of many people, who are waking up to the fact that consumerism cannot provide a true sense of fulfilment to the human spirit.

Welcoming nature into your life, your mind and of course your garden, can provide a great deal of benefits: increased physical health, a sense of mental wellbeing, and of course a refuge and food source for our birds, bees, beetles and anything else that wriggles, crawls, flies, hops and slithers.

Since I started foraging and working with nature, I began to recognise myself as part of a whole, rather than an other.

I truly believe by helping people re-forge a connection with the land they live in (severed by The First Industrial Revolution, due to be atomised by The Second) will do far more long-term good for our environment than carbon credits, nature levies and other such nonsense cooked up by consultants to absolve governments of real responsibility for the state of our environment.

Each of us must be a steward of the land, for the good of the part, and the good of the whole.

I am hoping to use this blog as a medium to raise awareness of native British flora and fungi, as well as exploring a whole host of other interesting topics and debates. Thanks for swinging by.